Garment.



0. KENZY.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2a. 1911.

mgfibmww Patented May 7,1918.

71 5571165565: Jn/yg 060647" .[12 rag By I fig OSCAR KENZY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May t, 1918:.

Application filed January 26, 1917. Serial No. 144,776.

' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OsoAR KENZY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful-Improvement in Garments of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

y invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in garments and more particularly to that class of mens nether garments which are designed to support the scrotum and testicles of the wearer.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide a nether garment, either a pair of drawers or a union suit together with a suspensory bag member, the latter of which forms a part of the nether garment, and is preferably inseparably attached thereto so as to be laundried therewith.

A further object of the invention is to provide a suspensory bag member which,

although manufactured perfectly flat, assumes the necessary and required shape when the garment is worn. This feature is important in that the cost'of manufacture is greatly reduced and because of the fact that the bag portion may be effectively cleaned with the nether garment.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an article of this class which is comfortable to the wearer, that is, one in which no reinforcing strips of leather or attaching means such as buttons and the like which interfere with the comfort of the wearer need be employed.

These and other objects of my invention will be more clearly pointed out in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein, i

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the garment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view of the suspensory member before it is attached to the nether garment.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts in both views.

Referring first to Fig. 1, 3 illustrates a nether garment which in Fig. 1 is illustrated as a pair of drawers, but I desire to have it understood that the device of m, invention may be appliedequally as wefl to a union suit. The suspensory bag member of my invention is shown in Fig 2 the waist line the after it is manufactured and ready to be made part of the nether garment. In .Fig. 2, 4 illustrates the body member of the suspensory which is made up of any desirable material and which has two upwardly, ex tending strips shown at 5 and 6. The upper end of the strip 5 has sewed to it a strip of resilient material or tape shown at 7 The outer end of the strip 7 is folded upon itself as illustrated to provide the oblique edge shown at 7. The upper end of the strip 6 has sewed or otherwise attached to it the elastic tape 8, which is also folded upon itself to provide the oblique edge 8. The

lower end of the body member 4 1s provided with the two downwardly extending pieces 9 and 10, each one of which carries one or more button holes as shown at 11-11.

In the preferred form of my invention the garment is slit in the six places indicated by the reference numerals 12, 13, 14, 12 13 and 14 The arms 5 and 6 together with the resilient bands 7 and 8 are then inserted through the slots 14 and 14 from the inside of the garment. Both of the strips 5 and 6 are then brought upwardly and in-' serted from the outside of the garment through the slots 13 and 13. The strips 5 and 6 are then again passed outwardly through the slots 12 and 12 and the outer ends of the strips 7 and 8 are attached as shown at 15 and 16 to the waist line of the garment. that before the pieces 7 and 8 are sewed to edges 7 and 8? are straightened out as shown in Fig. 1, so as to lie substantially parallel with the waist line.

When the garment is worn the pieces 9 and 10 are brought upwardly as shown in Fig. 1 and buttoned onto one of the but- Attention is called to the fact tons of the nether garment preferably the lower one. The inner flap of the nether garmentis provided with a slot 17 through which the piece 9 extends when secured to the button.

When the portions 9 and 10 of the member 4 are buttoned to the nether garment as shown in Fig. 1 the front portion of the member 4 is given a bag like conformation. On account, of the method of attaching the resilient strips 7 and 8 to the strips 5 and 6 and to the waist line of the nether garment an upward pull is provided along the outer edges of the strips 5 and 6 with the result that the rear portion of the member 4. which forms the suspensory is given the necessary concave formation. The slots 14, 14, etc., are inclined as indicated in Fig. 1 the lower one more so than the next upper one, so that the strips and 6 may have easy movement through the garment and so that the member 4 will be given the required shape without twisting that portion of the nether garment through which the strips 5 and 6 extend. When the member 4 is not to be used the eX- tensions 9 and 10 are merely removed from the button of the nether garment.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment, a button carried at the /holes at its front thereof"and-above thecrotch, a normally substantially fiatspspensory member attached to the rear of the garment and having a pair of horizontally spaced button front end both of which are arranged to receive the said button, whereby the member when secured to the button takes a bag like conformation and is supported in part from the front of the garment.

2. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment, a normally substantially flat suspensory member attached to the rear of the garment and having a pair of horizontally spaced attaching means at its front end, a single device carried by the garment above the crotch for connecting with both of the said means to support the suspensory member, whereby the member takes a bag-like conformation when secured to the said device and is supported in part from the front of the garment.

3. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment, having flaps at the front thereof, a button provided on the outside of the inner flap, a suspensory member having two strips extending alternately in and out through the rear of the garment and atttached to substantially the waist line of the garment, the front end of said member carrying two projections each provided with a button hole whereby the projections may be attached to said button to support the front end of the suspensory member.

4. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment having flaps at the front thereof, a button provided on the outside of the inner flap, a slot provided on the inner flap, a suspensory member having two strips extending alternately in and out through the rear of the garment and attached to substantially the waist line of the ing a nether garment, a suspensory member having two strips at its rear end, resilient pieces secured to the strips and attached to substantially the Waist line of the garment in such manner as to provide a greater upward pull along the outside edges of said strips than along the inside edges thereof, and means for supporting the front end of the member from the garment.

6. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment, a suspensory member having. two rearwardly and upwardly extending strips, a plurality of slits provided in the rear of the garment, said slits being disposed in two substantially vertical rows, said slits being obliquely disposed relatively to the waist line, the lower slit having a greater angle of inclination than the next upper strip, said strips extending through said slits alternately on opposite sides of the rear of the garment and having their upper ends attached to substantially the waist line of the garment in a manner such that an upward pull is provided along the outer edges of the said strips.

7. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment, a normally flat suspensory member attached to the rear of the garment and having two normally horizontally spaced points at its front end attached to the front of the garment at one point above the crotch whereby the member assumes a bag-like conformation.

8. A device of the class described comprising a nether garment, a normally fiat suspensory member connected to and extending between the front and rear of the garment, and means at the front and rear of the member for holding the lateral edges thereof above the central portion of the member so as to give the member a bag-like conformation.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe. my name this 23rd day of January, A. l). 1917.

OSCAR KENZY.

\Vitnesses:

ROBERT F. BRAGKE, CI-rAs. PIMBLEY. 

